Hiroshi Kajiyama

Hiroshi Kajiyama (2017)

Hiroshi Kajiyama ( Japanese 梶 山 弘志 Kajiyama Hiroshi ; born October 18, 1955 in Hitachi-Ōta , Ibaraki Prefecture ) is a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), member of  the Shūgiin , the lower house of the national parliament , for the constituency of Ibaraki 4 and Acting Minister for Economy and Industry .

Life

Kajiyama was born on October 18, 1955 as the son of the later LDP politician Seiroku Kajiyama ( 梶 山 静 六 ; 1926-2000) in Hitachi-Ōta. After studying law at Nihon University  , he worked at Dōryoku-ro kaku nenryō kaihatsu jigyō-dan ( 動力 炉 ・ 核燃料 開 発 事業 団 ; Eng. "Power Reactor and Nuclear Fuel Development Corporation"), a forerunner of the today's " Japanese Atomic Energy Research and Development Organization ". He then became his father's secretary and founded his own trading company in 1988.

In the general election in 2000 , Kajiyama ran as the successor to his father, who had recently died in the constituency of Ibaraki 4, and was elected with a clear lead over a CPY candidate; since then he has been able to defend his constituency in every election. He took on his first government post from 2006 to 2007 in the first Abe cabinet as "Parliamentary State Secretary" in the Ministry of Transport . After the 2009 election , he was appointed one of the LDP's deputy general secretaries ( fuku-kanjichō ) and in 2011 he was appointed deputy PARC chairman. After the LDP took over government under Shinzō Abe in the 2012 election , he returned to the second Abe cabinet as "Vice Minister" in the Ministry of Transport. During the cabinet reshuffle in August 2017 , Kajiyama was appointed Minister of State for special tasks (regional regeneration and deregulation) and held this post until October 2018.

On October 25, 2019, Prime Minister Abe Kajiyama appointed Abe to succeed the resigned Minister of Economic Affairs Isshu Sugawara in the fourth cabinet, which had been reorganized for the second time .

Web links

• Official Website (Japanese)